Pediatric private duty nursing in Forsyth County

Who we serve in Forsyth County

Children under 21 whose day-to-day care needs a nurse or a trained caregiver: a tracheostomy or ventilator, a feeding tube, oxygen, seizure care, or significant help with lifting, positioning and daily activities. There is no fixed list of qualifying diagnoses. Approval turns on how much hands-on care your child needs each day, and Georgia Medicaid decides who is approved, not HeartPath.

Forsyth is where we have spent real time with Babies Can’t Wait service coordinators. If your child is enrolled in Babies Can’t Wait, remember that GAPP runs alongside it, not after it. A child can be in both at once, and starting GAPP before BCW ends at three is how families avoid a gap in care.

Where children come home from in Forsyth County

Forsyth has grown fast enough that its hospital capacity has grown with it, so most families here are discharged in Cumming rather than in the city. If your child is still admitted, call before discharge.

Northside Hospital Forsyth in Cumming runs a 21-bed Level III NICU with neonatologist coverage around the clock and a resuscitation team that attends high-risk births. It is the main delivering hospital for the county.

Children who need pediatric subspecialty or surgical care usually head down 400 to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite in Sandy Springs, which is the closest campus to Forsyth.

Babies Can’t Wait in Forsyth County

Forsyth County is served by District 2, the North Health District based in Gainesville. Forsyth is administered from Gainesville, not Atlanta, in a district that also covers Banks, Dawson, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hart, Lumpkin, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union and White.

Babies Can’t Wait is Georgia’s early intervention program for children under three. It runs alongside GAPP rather than instead of it, and a child can be in both. If you are still working out which programs apply, our guide to coming home from the hospital walks through the order they happen in, and Babies Can’t Wait and GAPP explains how the two fit together.

Getting there from Forsyth County

Forsyth is north of us up 400, and it is a straightforward run for a nurse coming from the north metro.

Care is scheduled around your family, including nights, weekends and overnights. We match nurses to a child and work to keep the same nurse with the same family, because the nurse who knows your child’s baseline is the one who notices the day it changes.

What it costs a family here

Nothing. For children approved through Georgia Medicaid there is no out-of-pocket cost, no copay and no deductible. If you have been told your income is too high for Medicaid, read how Katie Beckett works before you give up on it. That pathway ignores parents’ income entirely and looks only at the child’s medical needs.

Starting from Cumming

Call 678-459-2590 or check eligibility online. We talk with you, help get the physician documentation moving, and submit the authorization request to Georgia Medicaid. About 30 days from first call to care starting is typical, though Medicaid sets the pace of its own review. Here is the full timeline.